Historians--is it true that Nixon sabatoged the peace in '68?

[WI_DEM]

to get elected? something about Anna Chestnut (?) who was close to tricky dick telling the North Vietnamize to ignore Johnson's latest peace initiative that Nixon would give them a better deal--in the closing days of the '68 campaign. LBJ knew all about it becuz he had Nixon tapped and gave the info to Humphrey who decided not to use it.

[On the Road]

1. Kissinger Sabotaged the Peace Intiative

at least according to The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Went through the "dragon lady" -- forget her name.

[Gman]

2. What? Another clandestine trip to London by poppy

that we never knew about?

Seems UNDERMINING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a way of doing business for the pukes.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. Anna Chennault

IIRC, Nixon believed the transcripts were located in the Brookings Institute which is the "plumbers" nearly firebombed it (well at least that's what I remember from Anthony Summers biography of Nixon)

[AP]

4. Kissinger worked for LBJ. He told NV'ese that if they waited for Nixon,

Nixon would cut them a better deal.

The NV backed out of the peace accords. The war went on for 4 more years. Nixon didn't cut a better deal until much later, and it ended being substantially the same deal that LBJ had on the table.

Think of all the Vietnemese and American lives that were ruined because Kissinger wanted to play power politics and get Nixon in the white house.

[FrankBooth]

7. Millions of lives lost

so the GOP could win in '68.

Kissinger is pure evil.

[troublemaker]

5. Did 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger' have a section on this?

[NYC]

6. Everyone sabotaged the peace initiative.

Read The Pentagon Papers.

[Atman]

8. "Historians?" Sheesh...I feel so OLD!

I was just a teenager, but Nixon and Watergate is what got me into politics. It was an astonishing time then...imagine having only three teevee stations, and they were all simultaneously broadcasting the WG hearings. Every shop or restaurant you went into had a teevee going. You couldn't switch to Nickelodean to ignore it. That's part of what creeps me out about the current fiasco...half of the players seem to be holdovers from those hearings, just older wrinklier and grayer.

But not me, of course. Well, okay, I'm older.